Job 14:13
in Job 14If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
KJV
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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This verse in Job 14
Commentary
10 notes on this verseVer. 13. O that Thou wouldest defend me in hell! That before the coming of the Mediator between God and man, every person, though he might have been of a pure and approved life, descended to the prisons of hell, there can be no doubt; in that man, who fell by his own act, was unable by his own act to return to the rest of Paradise, except that He should come, Who by the mystery of His Incarnation should open the way into that same Paradise.
This site's exposition
If only You would hide me in Sheol
on Job 14:13-15
"When a man dies, will he live again?" states the book's central question, a hope 19:25 carries further. "I will wait, until my renewal comes" turns the question into resolve, and "You will call, and I will answer" answers his demand of 13:22.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
The meaning is, "Oh that in the time when you were inflamed with rage against me, you would have kept me in custody in the netherworld—there, in fact, custody is not due to faults—and that you would not have forgotten me completely but would have …
The Medieval Church1 voice
After Job has shown what one can conclude about the resurrection of man from things which are apparent to the senses, he posits here his own opinion about the resurrection. It would be a horrendous and unhappy thing if man should so depart after death …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Hide me there, not only from the storms of this life, but for the glory of a better. Until thy wrath be past - As long as our bodies lie in the grave, there are some fruits of God's wrath against sin: until the set time comes, for their being remembered, as Noah was remembered in the ark, Gen. viii, 1.
And that thou wouldest hide me in the grave,....
There let me lie, (1.) Until thy wrath be past. As long as the bodies of the saints lie in the grave, so long there are some remains of that wrath which they were by nature children of, so long they are under some of the effects of sin; but, when the body is raised, it is wholly past--death, the last enemy, will then be totally destroyed.
3 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave; - compare the notes at Job 3:11 ff. Hebrew “in Sheol” - ב־שׁאול bı̂-she'ôl. Vulgate, “in inferno.” Septuagint ἐν ἅδῃ en Hadē - “in Hades.” On the meaning of the word “Sheol,” see the notes at Isa 5:14. It does not mean here, I think, the grave. It means the region of departed spirits, the place of the dead, where he wished to be, until the tempest of the wrath of God should pass by.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Job wishes to be kept hidden in the grave until God's wrath against him shall have passed away. So while God's wrath is visiting the earth for the abounding apostasy which is to precede the second coming, God's people shall be hidden against the resurrection glory (Isa 26:19-21). set time--a decreed time (Ac 1:7).
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave - Dreadful as death is to others, I shall esteem it a high privilege; it will be to me a covert from the wind and from the tempest of this affliction and distress. Keep me secret - Hide my soul with thyself, where my enemies cannot invade my repose; or, as the poet expresses it: - “My spirit hide with saints above, My body in the tomb.” Job does not appear to have the same thing in view when he entreats God to hide him in the grave; and to keep him secret, until his wrath be past. The former relates to the body; the latter to the spirit. That thou wouldest appoint me a set time - As he had spoken of the death of his body before, and the secreting of his spirit in the invisible world, he must refer here to the resurrection; for what else can be said to be an object of desire to one whose body is mingled with the dust? And remember me! - When my body has paid that debt of death which it owes to thy Divine justice, and the morning of the resurrection is come, when it may be said thy wrath, אפך appecha, “thy displeasure,” against the body is past, it having suffered the sentence denounced by thyself: Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die; then remember me - raise my body, unite my spirit to it, and receive both into thy glory for ever.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִ֤י | mi | who? | H4310 → | 423 times |
| יִתֵּ֨ן׀ | yiten | will he give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| בִּשְׁא֬וֹל | bishol | in Sheol | H7585 → | 66 times |
| תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי | tatzpineni | you will hide me | H6845 → | 32 times |
| תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי | tastireni | you will conceal me | H5641 → | 80 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| שׁ֣וּב | shuv | turns back | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| אַפֶּ֑ךָ | ʾapekha | anger your | H639 → | 276 times |
| תָּ֤שִׁ֥ית | tashit | you will set | H7896 → | 83 times |
| לִ֖י | li | for me | ||
| חֹ֣ק | chok | a limit | H2706 → | 127 times |
| וְתִזְכְּרֵֽנִי׃ | vetizkereni | and you will remember me | H2142 → | 230 times |
מִ֤יwho?
miH4310 →423 times
יִתֵּ֨ן׀will he give
yitenH5414 →2011 times
בִּשְׁא֬וֹלin Sheol
bisholH7585 →66 times
תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִיyou will hide me
tatzpineniH6845 →32 times
תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִיyou will conceal me
tastireniH5641 →80 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
שׁ֣וּבturns back
shuvH7725 →1056 times
אַפֶּ֑ךָanger your
ʾapekhaH639 →276 times
תָּ֤שִׁ֥יתyou will set
tashitH7896 →83 times
לִ֖יfor me
li
חֹ֣קa limit
chokH2706 →127 times
וְתִזְכְּרֵֽנִי׃and you will remember me
vetizkereniH2142 →230 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Mark 13:32No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
it leads to
- Matthew 24:36–42
No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
- Acts 1:7
Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- Matthew 25:13
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
- Revelation 3:3
Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will…
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1–2
Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.
- Matthew 24:36–42
Through
Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
it leads to
- Romans 2:16
on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
- 2 Peter 3:7
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Matthew 25:31–46
When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne.
- Romans 2:16
About Job
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII; Gregory the Great, Morals on the Book of Job; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Olympiodorus of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON JOB 14:13-14 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.